Famous nurses

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
11/24/1843	Dorothea Dix	reformer of state prisons and hospitals
11/24/1870	Linda Richards	became the first trained nurse
11/24/1879	Mary Eliza Mahoney	First African American nurse
11/23/1881	Clara Barton	Aided troops in the Civil war and founded the American Red Cross in 1881
11/23/1890	Lavinia Dock	wrote the first drug manual for nurses, Materia Medica
11/23/1893	Lillian Wald	established the Henry St Settlement and coined the term "public health nurse"
11/23/1896	Isabel Hampton Robb	organized the ANA and the National League of Nursing Education
11/23/1907	Mary Adelaide Nutting	established the 8 hour work day for nurses
11/24/1912	Margaret Sanger	Advocate for birth control; called for legalization of contraceptives
11/23/1918	Annie Goodrich	established Army School of Nursing
11/24/1925	Mary Breckenridge	founded Frontier Nursing Service to provide care in Appalachians of KY
11/24/1930	Dorothea Orem	Self care theorist; founder of International OremSociety if 1993
11/24/1934	Ida V Moffett	first woman to achieve school accreditation for nursing programs
11/24/1960	Virginia Henderson	defined nursing in the Basic Principles of Nursing Care
11/24/1970	Martha Rogers	published Theoretical Basis of Nursing Science of Unitary Human Beings
11/24/1974	Madeleine Leininger	wrote Journal of Transcultural Nursing
11/24/1979	Hildegard Peplau	mother of psychiatric nursing and wrote Foundations of Nursing
11/24/1979	Jean Watson	theory of Transpersonal care